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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 8864462" data-attributes="member: 67338">I agree, and from the time I entered the hobby (with 2e) that is what I learned editions were... 1e wasn't radically different it was just 2e with some things not tweaked yet (and over the years I met plenty of people who played 1e and had house rules that lined up a lot with 2e)This is what I mean by 'they don't want to call it an edition but it is"now to be fair 3e was VERY different then 2e, but 3.5 (that half edition) it at the time lined up that I was told it was slightly more different then 1e and 2e where, BUT way less then the difference between 2e and 3e. Now 4e was a major change again but if we stick pin in this...5e is a bigger change to 3e then 1e is to 2e and bigger then 3e to 3.5 and smaller then 3.5 to 4e... so up until now the term of edition sometimes means a slight version change updateing with popular house rules and modern ideas (1 e to 2 e) or a drastic overhaul (2e to 3e and 3e to 4e I think fit here) or even a half edition change (the .5 modle.so when I see a new version that is tweaking major parts (like say new versions of cleric bard ext) I see a new edition (or version) of teh game. so if the 2024 PHB doesn't sell like the 2014 PHB did in 2014 or 2015 that would mean it was a success and not a new edition/version in your mind? so as long as we only count the major change editions we can say that...I agree they plan to reprint the adventures... the 'back compatibility' appears (to me) to be entirely on the adventure side... but not the player side</blockquote>

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